I still want to know who paid for the operation? There's a mixed bag here as if social and governmental persecution of lgbtq people was/is unique to Cuba in the Caribbean. Some of the same social ills and issues of democracy I see in other Caribbean and Latin American countries and even worse and they are never pointed out.

BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com Eight weeks after Cuban leader Raúl Castro’s daughter, Mariela, received a gay equality award in Philadelphia, two of the island’s best-known LGBT dissidents are in Miami warning American activists not to believe what she says. “I want to say to the...

By the looks on the post one thing that Cooper's comming out shows there are still a lot of ignorant, hatefilled, homophobic people out there. Cooper is protected by the privilege of his status from the brunt of it. It's the young ones who are trying to live the truth of who they are who have to suffer still.

Anderson Cooper has officially come out of the closet. In an email to Andrew Sullivan, published on The Daily Beast: The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud. Click here to read the complete article.